Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring - as Sappho says, 'More real than real, more gold than gold.'
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
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Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring - as Sappho says, 'More real than real, more gold than gold.'
